VOCABULARY
You will need to write 5 principles/fact/ideas that you already know about Vocabulary. 5 new
principles/ideas that you would like to learn, and 10 new facts that you have learned from the
reading.
What I Know
 Vocabulary is in everything.
 Vocab. is important to every
subject.
 You can teach vocab in
many ways.
 There are many ways to
learn about vocab.
 Vacab. Are the words that
are special to a category
that creates the language of
that category.
What I Want to Know
 What are the different
forms of vocabulary?
 How does vocab have
different sizes and why
doesn’t it matter.
 What is the vocab gap?
 In what ways do vocab help
with comprehension?
 What are the best ways to
teach vocab.
What I Learned
 Vocab is the knowledge of
words and word meanings
 There are four forms,
Listening, speaking,
reading and Writing
 There are four levels of
vocab. 1. Never seen nor
heard. 2. Have seen or
heard but don’t know
meaning. 3. Kind of sort of
know the meaning. 4.
Know it well.
 The size relates to how
many words a person
knows.
 You learn between 800-
1000 root-words per year
through six grade.
 You can learn about 2
words a day or 10 a week.
 The gap refers to how
many words you know
compared to others. It only
gets bigger the older you
get.
 You can not understand
text unless you know what
the words mean.
 There are more words than
can be taught.
 The dictionary is a great
way to learn new words.
 To help build vocabulary,
you must grow an interest
in words.
 The more you are exposed
to a word the better you
remember it.